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PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...
PINNED Distribute the Instana kubectl plugin with Krew
Krew is a popular open source plugin manager for the kubectl command-line tool maintained by the Kubernetes SIG CLI community. The tool helps to discover, install, and update kubectl plugins by offering a centralised plugin repository. The usage o...

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Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Add appropriate filters to Smart alerts.

Dear colleagues, we're during PoC and noticed that creating a Smart Alert from Application perspective triggers the same component of the same application running on different OCP clusters. Detailed investigation showed that the application has th...
7 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 2 Not under consideration

Collecting external URLs used in Webviews

Hi all, following support ticket TS012739487 regarding flutter monitoring within Instana, we need now to have a way to collectU, within Instana, all the URLs that are getting accessed when we're using webviews in our mobile applications. Please le...
7 months ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

The Transformation maps should be in Persistent volume or there should be config maps to define transformation maps.

Currently, Cloud Native Watson AIOPS have no stable way to add wires, as custom transformation are deleted with WebGUI pod is restarted. There has be better way tom manage custom wire for user defined dashboards.
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Request support for Oracle Fusion Middleware Versions - 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4

Request to support Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2 and 12.2.1.4 Currently tracing shows "Source not monitored by Instana" for 80% of the SOAP calls.
over 1 year ago in Instana / Java / Tracing 3 Future consideration

Ansible Automation Scripts for Agent and TEPS Installation

Clients today use ITM as a base monitoring solutions for a variety of systems. In order to easily roll out ITM to additional systems, the ask is that ITM provide ansible automation scripts to assist with installation of server and agent components.
7 months ago in ITM/IBM APM 2 Not under consideration

Add support to another KexAlgorithms for SSh login

While scanning with TADDM part of the infrastructure, we couldn't login due to mismatch of the kexAlegorithms setup on the OS level and supported by TADDM => The kex algo 'curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org' is not supported by TADD...
7 months ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Future consideration

Auto start netman when it goes down abruptly

Netman process helps in sending and receiving the messages to and from the agents. When it goes down unexpectedly, it has to come up automatically which will not impact the daily refresh as well.
7 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

to extract from Azure the fact that a disk is an OS disk or a data disk without needing to rely on a naming standard

this will make it easier to associate different policies associated to the different disk types
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Endpoint grouping for mobile monitoring

Background & Context Endpoint grouping is very useful for monitoring REST API's. The problem we face is that we cannot properly compare endpoint traffic in backend with endpoint traffic monitored from frontend, as the endpoint grouping does no...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration